Quotes from Tash Sultana

I've been living a healthier life and, therefore, writing healthier music.

'Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure out how to put together - until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.

It's like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I'm about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.

I love the fact that there are so many people who have come to appreciate what I'm doing. That is just the best feeling in the world.

I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

I wrote 'Jungle' in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it's this really upbeat song, but it's not; it was just a really manic time, so I wrote a song about it.

I've got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it's all worked out.

I chose busking because I didn't want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

Music is multi-dimensional: it's all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I've never played before.

Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I'm there. I'm stuck in it.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.

It would be arrogant to come to music only thinking about success.

I love San Francisco for the music culture. There's this vibe there that I can't find anywhere else in the world. Easily one of the best places on the sea coast.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

I'm just all for equal rights and stuff like that, but I'm not like one of those 'Yay empowerment' type of people.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I think when you have one song that does really well, people love you from that song, or they hate you from that song.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.